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I finally converted my old, hideous picture gallery from a hodge-podge of PhotoShop and iTunes automatically generated pages to a full-fledge image gallery system. I've added a link to the "Links Here" section to it for future reference.

The system I used, ironically enough, is called Gallery. After some very minor initial setup hiccups (all operator error, I think), I had it up and running in no time.

The slickest part of this whole app is the numerous ways you can upload pictures into albums. Upload them individually, all in a zip file, or my favorite (especially for the initial setup) - feed the system a url to an images directory and it will automagically fetch them for you! After getting your pictures into albums (which can be nested multiple times), you can rotate the images, move the albums, move pictures within and to other albums, and on and on. This thing is so powerful, it can even detect whether your pictures need to be rotated upon upload and do that for you!

The one thing I think could be done better the workflow for adding an album. When you create an album it creates an untitled one and places it in a generic album directory (e.g. /album02/) on the server. It should ask you the name and directory name you want to use when creating the new album. I think this would probably also make it a bit easier to comprehend for the novice user.

And as the developer admits, the fact that there is no easy way to change the appearance in a major way without delving into the php code is a big problem. I plan on hacking it up and making it match this blog in my copious spare time.